The Supreme Court rejected the complaint by which HazteOir and an individual had requested a criminal investigation from the Government, the Ministry of the Interior and the Generalitat for the escape of Carles Puigdemont in Barcelona last August. The Criminal Chamber rejects the accusation directed, among others, against Pedro Sánchez, Fernando Grande-Marlaska and Salvador Illa as well as against the directors of the Police, the Civil Guard and the Mossos d’Esquadra, blaming the ultra- Catholic who filed a complaint without indicating “how they organized it or how they used it”, so that the various police forces failed in their attempt to arrest Puigdemont, who had a warrant ruling issued by judge Pablo Llarena.
Carles Puigdemont, outside Spain since 2017 and called on several occasions by the Supreme Court to answer for the Catalan independence process, went to Barcelona last August for the inauguration session of the socialist Salvador Illa for the presidency. Puigdemont appeared for a few brief moments at the doors of Parliament on a stage, then got off and disappeared from the area, supposedly heading towards the Catalan chamber. Operation Cage des Mossos d’Esquadra did not find him and he returned to Brussels.
Judge Pablo Llarena, instructor of the central file of the trial, kept Carles Puigdemont under search and capture within the Spanish borders for more than six years and a few hours later he wrote to the Mossos and the Ministry of the Interior to demand. explanations on how the former Catalan president was able to disappear in broad daylight and in front of dozens of police officers. Meanwhile, Barcelona courts are investigating several Mossos agents who allegedly helped him escape.
The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court received several complaints and complaints against members of the government, accused of having let Puigdemont escape for political convenience. A first complaint was filed by an individual, accusing Pedro Sánchez, Fernando Grande-Marlska, Salvador Illa and the commanders of the police, civil guard and Mossos of illegal omission of the obligation to prosecute the crimes. A few days later, the president of HazteOir filed a complaint for the same crime against the Minister of the Interior.
The Supreme Court rejects all these criminal actions and recalls that denouncing someone solely for their position, without “referring to any link with the facts”, is a direct path to inadmissibility and archiving. “Only the responsibilities inherent to the various positions listed are described, but no conduct on their part is specified. We only talk about one result, the non-arrest of Mr. Puigdemont, but nothing indicates how they ordered or in what way they used the members of the different police forces to avoid this arrest.
The complaint and the complaint, the judges criticized at the end of October, “allude to responsibilities, but to specific behavior”. If they want to act against other people, explains the Supreme Court, they must do so before the competent authorities, such as the courts of Barcelona which are investigating the escape of the former Catalan president.
